flattie bashing

People:me and jack

Duration:6-9

Tide:full out at 8 i think

Weather:gentle easterly

Bait:lug,rag and mack

Rigs:3 hook flappers (beads versus no beads)

Results:plaice flounder and dabs




Report:headed out after college with jack, first things first we needed some petrol so out came bags of 20 and 10 cent coins, 15 euro later we where off to our mark :lol: first cast and i got a jammy 34cm plaice :lol: which was followed by a flounder, then jack struck back with two more flats. then a period of no fish began around slack water as expected. as soon as the tide picked up i landed a dab, then jack and i finished up with a double each, lovely day to be out :D :D

final scores me 6 fish
jack 4 fish
beads 1 fish
no beads 9 fish

Some pics.

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Great fishing there eric. The price of petrol is getting crazy!!
Interesting about the majority of fish coming to rigs with no beads.

where were you fishing?

the rocks should be a dead give away, its in wicklow

Rocks at Greystones?

nice fishing guys, strange results with the no bead rigs. just goes to show how unpredictable fishing can be at times :?

That is interesting - 9 fish with no beads, 1 fish with beads.
I never had much success getting flat fish when using beads - then a few weeks ago I headed out to an East Cork beach hoping for bass. However, the conditions were too calm so I set up one rod to target flounder - but as it was a long walk to the mark I was travelling light and didn't have much tackle with me and no rigs with beads - so used a beadless two hook size 2 flapper rig and got 4 flounder.

After that I fished in Youghal a couple of Sunday afternoons and again used rigs with no beads and got 3 good size floiunder the first time and 7 the last time, all apart from one were a good size.

So that leads me to think that beads are not all they are talked up to be.

Rocks at clones???

Brayhead?

Nice fishing! :D

Last may I fished redbay pier (co.Antrim) I was catching plenty of plaice and flounder on different rigs, looking back on my dairy there this morning;

I experimented with vairous rigs.

Ammensia REd with beads: 2 Flounder

Ammensia REd with no beads: 4plaice 6 Flounder

Ammensia Black with no beads: 8 plaice 6 flounder

Ammensia Black with beads: 2 plaice 3 flounder

Ammensia clear with beads: 2 flounder

i was going to tell ya, but with everyone guessing, this is fun keep em coming :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

God dam it the Roadstone Pier area Arklow??

i forgot about that session too!!

good to see the plaice

now guessing a mark in wicklow ?????

15 yoyos of fuel

was that a diesel or a petrol ye were driving :lol:

petrol, 2lt sports car from killiney and back, where could it be?

head wrecked now tryin 2 tink 8) 8) 8)

there was petrol left over as well :D Its great looking at people trying to figure it out :wink: .

thanks jack, jus cant think, think i mite google earth it and look 4 da rocks, lol :D :D :D :D

the speed jack drives at i,d say galway :lol: p.s sports cars only have 2 seats the correct term is hot hatch or pocket rocket :D oh yea check out the hording along the harbour wall behind ya :lol: :lol:geystones :lol: :lol: :lol:

Location :?: I'll throw my guess into the hat.....

I'm thinking the rocks beside Greystones Harbour, but I'm suprised at the lack of whiting :roll: so maybe I'm wrong.

BTW Whats the prize for guessing correctly :wink: